Film & Media Studies | Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation" and The Shining | Video Essay @filmandmediastudieschannel | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
A video essay providing an overview of Susan Sontag's landmark essay "Against Interpretation" (1964) and illustrating some of its ideas with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).

For a subsequent lesson on film form that moves beyond the simple level of description suggested here, check out this video on form as pattern in Rear Window: youtube.com/watch?v=DpPjdsHG_EI&t=7s